Researchers believe that the 6,000-year-old ax may have been used as a gift for the gods.

A depiction of a steamy encounter between two men on the island of Astypalaia, Greece, this ancient graffiti provides a glimpse into literacy among ordinary Ancient Greeks.

Researchers believe Neolithic humans used a method called incaprettamento to sacrifice victims across Europe during agricultural rituals over a span of at least 2,000 years.

For over 140 years, residents of Aachen, Germany, believed that their town sat atop an ancient Roman fort. Now, a recent construction project has just revealed that rumor to be true.

Workers removing invasive plants during a dune restoration project in Knokke, Belgium's Willemspark discovered three World War II bunkers just inches beneath the sand.

The medieval battle helmet was recently pulled out of the Ionian Sea, possibly for the first time in nearly 600 years.

Over 100 hours of work went into restoring the only known complete Māori kahu kākāpō, a traditional cloak made from the feathers of a rare flightless parrot native to New Zealand.

After 60 years, Daisy Shelton's family finally has the answer to who brutally murdered her in 1963.

Curiously, the researchers also uncovered a burial containing a chariot and the skeletal remains of two horses. Archaeologists are hopeful that their findings will reveal more about one of China's most influential historical periods.

Jacek Ukowski discovered the fragmented remains of a 14th-century papal bull in Wysoka Kamieńska, Poland — but no one knows how it got there.

Researchers have uncovered a large structure that was under construction at the time Mount Vesuvius erupted, shedding light on ancient Roman building techniques.

The Roman villa in Oxfordshire, England likely served both a cultural and spiritual role in the area between the 1st and 5th centuries given the sheer amount of artifacts found there.